Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important respiratory disease and the fifth
leading cause of mortality in Europe. The development of molecular diagnostic tests has …

Background: With the development of more rapid and sensitive detection methods based on
PCR techniques, the contributions of respiratory viral infections to community-acquired …

Background Viral pathogens were more commonly reported than previously estimated in
community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients. However, the real role of virus was still …

Background The role of respiratory viruses in the etiology of community-acquired
pneumonia (CAP) is still debated. The advent of molecular assays has improved the …

Background The role of viruses in community-acquired pneumonia may have been
previously underestimated. We aimed to study the incidence and clinical characteristics of …

Please cite this paper as: Huijskens et al.(2012) Viral and bacterial aetiology of community‐
acquired pneumonia in adults. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 7 (4), 567–573 …

The advent of PCR has improved the identification of viruses in patients with community-
acquired pneumonia (CAP). Several studies have used PCR to establish the importance of …

Infectious agents associated with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are under-studied.
This study attempted to identify viruses from the upper respiratory tract in adults visiting …

Background Use of nucleic acid amplification techniques has increased the identification of
respiratory viruses (RVs) in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The …

Background: In adults, viral causes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are poorly
characterised. The aims of this study were to characterise the viral aetiology of CAP in adults …